In the wonderful world of social media, I see lots of posts of lots of people offended by lots of stuff. Usually, it’s what the other political side said or did. It’s something “their” President said or did. Many people seem to think it’s their job to point out the wrongdoings of everyone else, especially when it’s “them” doing it.

I listened to a great audiobook recently entitled Unoffendable by Brent Hansen. The gist of this masterful little book is that believers should be the hardest people to offend because we understand our own frailty and weakness foremost. We understand that it’s hard to cast any stones when we have plenty of our own sin to deal with.

Again, I want to give a reminder to anyone reading these words that it’s not your job to fix everything that’s wrong with everybody else. It’s not your place to try to right every wrong, to rectify every injustice. You can be sad that we live in a world where not everything works like it’s supposed to or that not everyone abides by God’s law. But you also need to remember that we live in a beautiful but broken world where life is unfair but God is always good. Our hope is not in this world or in this life but in Jesus who will come again and restore what was broken and make everything right.

If every single person could look in the mirror and work on what they saw there instead of pointing out the errors of everyone else, we’d all be a lot better off. Better yet, if we spent less time complaining and whining and more time praying for those people, we might find ourselves less inclined to be anxious. We might even love those on the other side a little more.

The key is before you try to fix everyone else, fix yourself first. Or just let God fix you and let Him worry about fixing everybody else. Sound good to you?